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After having to watch the film "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (Directed by Ken Loach) for one of my history classes, it wasn't long before my obsession with Irish actor Cillian Murphy ensued. I first saw him in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later, but for some reason, the character (an Irish revolutionary) he played in Loach's film struck me differently and left more of an impression. My subsequent wikipedia research led me to the neat discovery that Cillian acted in a short film that Kevin Drew (from Broken Social Scene) directed. I was so happy to see this.

The story is told like a visual poem, in silence for the first ten minutes until Feist's song, "The Water" chimes in. The haunting beauty of the "The Water" seems to compliment the images of rural Canadian winter landscapes and that of character's faces and body language. It is certainly a work of art and subject to different personal interpretations. I am still in the midst of trying to formulate my own.

Here's the film below, along with the lyrics to Feist's "The Water." It will leave you with questions about death, life and love and I suppose it's up to you to piece it together.

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THE WATER

The telegraph cables hum
And few can decipher who the message is from
And it deliver it quietly
Cause some don't get much company

The harbour becomes the sea
And lighting the house keeps it collision free
Understand the lay of the land
And don't let it hurt you
Or it will be the first to

The water, the water
Didn't realize
It's dangerous size
The mountain, the mountain
Came to recognize
It's a steep and rocky sides
More than realized

Pale as a pile of bones
You hope for your babies
And this is how they grow
Wind-battered, knocked over
The teeth by the shoulder
Watching the grey sky
That's acting like a good guy

The water, the water
Came to realize
It's a dangerous size
The mountain the mountain
Came to recognize
It's steep and rocky sides
Came to recognize
It's steep and rocky sides
More than realized

For a brief moment in time, I forgot about you... and have been recently reminded how absolutely talented and poetic and beautiful you are Gemma Hayes.

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Please come back to Toronto.

I've recently been enjoying these songs;


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i have been waiting all of my days

After seeing Sam Mendes' film "Away We Go" I rekindled my long lost love for the acoustic folk artist Alexi Murdoch. His music makes up the majority of the soundtrack of the movie and it couldn't have been more suitable. Listen to the video below if you haven't heard his stuff before (which I'm sure you have- he tends to appear on a handful of film productions and tv series) and I think you'll agree that he is a sort of contemporary Nick Drake (my dad thought it was him throughout the entire movie). With that being said, how could you resist? Press play and enjoy.

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P.S Alexi aside, the movie was really fantastic by the way- seasoned with humour, tenderness, charm and real character substance.

home is where ever i'm with you...

Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is on constant repeat (in between Sufjan Stevens' christmas albums) in my itunes since I heard it for the first time a couple weeks ago and while it screams summer, it seems that it will be the anthem of my winter holidays. It's that song, you know, that really takes you back to a particular point in your life. I know that when I play this song 5 months from now, I am going to have that nostalgic wave of "christmas 2009" and all its glory (I hope!). Funny how music does that to us, eh? I suppose it is both good and bad, depending on the memories, but either way I sure think it's a beautiful thing.

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Seasons Greetings!! .. sort of..

Due to every student's favourite state of exams (in which i'm currently drowning) this post is but a brief announcement until I am free from the constraints of my books and my apartment and the library and my coffee mug and my books....

I wanted to link you to Chark, a new, group side project which will hopefully be the beginning of something super fantastic. For now, take a look at some great photos of some of the gang (I wasn't kidding when I said this was new, as in one post new!) posted by my partner in crime and founder of Chark, Miss Colleen Kirley. Please stay tuned in the new year, as Chark will start moulding into shape!

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